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I wanted to write a book about bankers because finance seems to have replaced politics, with democracy beginning to feel like a system that allows voters to decide which politician gets to implement what “the markets” dictate.

Modern-day capitalism has no shortage of heavyweight scholars - names such as Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Friedrich von Hayek and Murray Rothbard are among the most prominent names that surface among free market thinkers. Yet the person most frequently evoked by proponents and detractors alike was neither a trained economist nor a traditional businessperson.

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I wanted to write a book about bankers because finance seems to have replaced politics, with democracy beginning to feel like a system that allows voters to decide which politician gets to implement what “the markets” dictate.

Modern-day capitalism has no shortage of heavyweight scholars - names such as Milton Friedman, Adam Smith, Friedrich von Hayek and Murray Rothbard are among the most prominent names that surface among free market thinkers. Yet the person most frequently evoked by proponents and detractors alike was neither a trained economist nor a traditional businessperson.